5 Responses to “Doc the Elder”

I’m enjoying being 60 even more now after reading your post. Hey, Doc, welcome to the club, young fella.

But did you guys see Ronni Bennett’s post about the “fun” elder-hating groups in Facebook? http://www.timegoesby.net/2007/07/facebook-elde-1.html. Groups with names like “Kill the elderly”, “F*CK Old PEOPLE”, “I hate old people,” “OLD PEOPLE SHOULD JUST DIE”, and (my favorite) “If this group reaches 2000 people, i will push a old lady down the stiars” (sic). Fortunately, that last group has only 164 people in it so far.

So far so good. I don’t feel a day older. (But there are still a few hours left.)

As for the Facebook thing, I did see Ronni’s write-up, but haven’t had time to look into it. I’m curious to see how the Facebook people handle the matter. One wonders how they’d react if the grouped hate were directed at ethnic groups rather than a demographic category.

FWIW, I’ll bet it’s mostly the immature reaction of a few young people to the mature decision by Facebook’s leaders to make the service serve more than young people alone.